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...teenage insecurities—it tells its audience that any transformation can be made with MTV’s help. In its casting call, MTV asks: “Are you…The soprano in the church choir but secretly want to learn how to rock? The computer geek who wants to put down his pocket protectors and pick up a varsity jacket?” If so, MTV suggests that you are a perfect candidate for “MADE.” Recent episodes have profiled such personalities as Kristen, the prissy rich girl from...
...produced “Get Your Geek On” for VH1. Is that a good pick-up line...
...million people watched last May as Ruben Studdard edged out Aiken by less than 1% of the votes. Studdard was the more polished singer, but Aiken was the better narrative. Week to week, with the help of a hair iron and contact lenses, he was transformed from a complete geek who sang show tunes into a better-looking geek who sang pop ballads. After the Idol finale, interest in Aiken surged, and his startlingly sincere first single, This Is the Night, trounced Studdard's to become the best-selling single since Elton John's reworked Candle in the Wind. Modern...
...perfect, and yet ? "There's no red carpet," says a forlorn Viktor. "No red carpet," says Rolf. It is not at all obvious from meeting Viktor Horsting and Rolf Snoeren that they would care about something like a red carpet. The skinny, bespectacled look-alike design team radiates more geek than glamour. They are darlings of fashion's intelligentsia (they had two openings in Paris last week: a show of their new spring/summer collection, and a Louvre exhibition devoted to their work that runs until Jan. 25, the first in nearly a decade to focus on fashion designers). But they...
Word processing, War Games, cubicle culture, geek chic, PowerPoint, Mine Sweeper, tech support...